Currently 57 active fellowships, across AI, arts, film, journalism, research, tech and cross-disciplinary practice. Hand-curated and updated weekly. Almost every entry is funded; a few notable unpaid open calls and festival submissions are included as clearly flagged exceptions. Browse the list below, or use the interactive desk for filtering and shortlisting.
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GAIN SSA (Global AI Youth Network, Sub-Saharan Africa) runs the AI Safety Essentials Fellowship for residents of Africa considering how they can be effective contributors in shaping the continent's transition toward containing risks from transformative AI. Fellows spend six weeks mapping the priorities and gaps that need to be filled in Africa's AI safety ecosystem, through curated pre-reading and a live group call each week (about 5 hours per week). CURRICULUM: existential risks and catastrophic vectors; frontier AI models and Africa; defining safe and beneficial AI; subfields and alignment architectures; Africa's AI safety landscape and policy; and a capstone week on fellowships and career launch, with guidance toward international pipelines such as MATS, ERA, BlueDot and GovAI. Mentorship comes from international AI safety researchers, governance fellows and peer builders. FUNDING: after the program, top capstone action-plan proposals are funded from a USD 500 to 1,000 micro-grant pool (capped at USD 1,000), including proposals needing compute, travel to AI alignment conferences in Sub-Saharan Africa, or communication work (for example Substack Pro for writers); results are shared within 10 days of receiving a proposal. The main aim is to have participants take action to build Africa's first AI safety systems. APPLICATION: expression of interest for the inaugural cohort via the Google Form linked from the program page. DEADLINE: expressions of interest close 8 November 2026.
The Federation of American Scientists' Metascience Fellowship places three full-time fellows inside federal research agencies such as the NSF or DOE for one year, after a pre-service residency at FAS. Fellows advise agency leaders on evidence-based research reform, analyse grantmaking, peer review and open-science practices, design experiments with built-in evaluation, write briefing memos, coordinate metascience work across agencies and give hands-on technical help. Placements may be extended depending on funding and performance. ELIGIBILITY: US citizens only; current federal employees cannot apply. Mid- to senior-career professionals with an advanced degree or equivalent experience in a scientific, engineering or public-policy field, willing to work mostly in person in the Washington, DC area. Fellows must start at FAS no later than 4 January 2027. Applications take a CV and three responses of up to 300 words each, submitted through the FAS platform. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026, 11:59PM ET; late applications are not reviewed.
The Upe Foundation and Gasworks are recruiting a full-time Curatorial Fellow for 12 to 18 months, embedded in Gasworks' curatorial team in south London. The Fellow works closely with the artist selected for the 2027 Gasworks residency for artists based in the Baltics and co-develops their 2028 solo exhibition, alongside wider exhibition, registrar, interpretation and residency duties. WHO: early-career curators with a connection to the Baltic region (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia or their diasporas); Gasworks will consider visa sponsorship for this fixed-term role. WHAT YOU GET: a GBP 32,000 per year salary, a 5% employer pension contribution and up to GBP 250 towards relocation flights. APPLICATION: download the job description and application form from the call page and upload the completed form; questions to rosaharvest@gasworks.org.uk. DEADLINE: 9 November 2026, 13:00 UK time.
The A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Women and Non-Binary Artists, established in 1993 by artist Stephanie Bernheim, annually awards six emerging artists based in New York City their first solo exhibition in NYC with the support of the A.I.R. community; more than 130 artists have come through the program. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 3,000 stipend, a solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery in spring/summer 2028, 4 to 5 professional development workshops, an assigned artist-mentor, a one-on-one studio visit with a review panelist, and curatorial and staff support across the 12-month fellowship (September 2027 to August 2028). WHO IS ELIGIBLE: women and non-binary visual artists working in any media, 18 or older, resident in the five boroughs of New York City for the full fellowship; you must not have had a solo exhibition at a permanent NYC venue in the last 10 years, must not be enrolled in a degree-granting program during the fellowship, must not be in a comparable development program, and must not be an A.I.R. staff/board member or fellowship alum. SELECTION PANEL for this cycle: Ada Potter, Jo-ey Tang and Mindy Seu. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 11:59pm ET. TO APPLY: via Submittable, linked from the program page.
The Asian Cultural Council's New York Fellowship brings artists, scholars and arts professionals from Asia to New York City for a six-month immersive cultural exchange. SUPPORT: USD 38,000 for the six-month fellowship. ELIGIBILITY: non-US citizens/residents from ACC-eligible Asian countries (including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam, among others); age 21+; at least five years of professional experience in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); English proficiency (J-1 visa requirement); fellows cannot work or pursue coursework during the fellowship. COHORTS: January-June 2028 or July-December 2028. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply platform; applications open 1 October 2026. Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026. No application fee. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026 at 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Individual Fellowship supports self-directed exploration and cultural exchange experiences in a new or less familiar environment, fostering exchange between the United States and Asia and within Asia. SUPPORT: up to USD 35,000 for a 1-to-6-month program (minimum 30 days; two or more months preferred); single or joint applications with up to 3 participants. ELIGIBILITY: citizens or permanent residents of ACC-eligible countries (the US and countries across Asia, from Afghanistan to Vietnam); age 21+; at least five years of professional experience in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); English proficiency if traveling to the US; no coursework or teaching during the fellowship. Grant activities must take place between 1 August 2027 and 31 December 2028. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply platform; applications open 1 October 2026. Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026. No application fee. DEADLINE: 10 November 2026 at 9:59 AM ET.
The Asian Cultural Council's Graduate Fellowship supports Asian graduate students in an eligible arts or culture discipline at a US university. SUPPORT: USD 15,000 for one academic year of full-time coursework; a second year may be renewed at ACC's discretion. ELIGIBILITY: citizens or legal permanent residents of an ACC-eligible country, territory or region in Asia (US citizens and permanent residents are not eligible); enrolled in, or admitted by 1 April 2027 to, a full-time in-residence graduate degree in the US in an eligible discipline (architecture, archaeology, art history, arts administration, arts criticism, conservation, crafts, curation, dance, ethnomusicology, film, literature, museum studies, music, theater, visual art); must be in the coursework phase, not the research or thesis phase. The five-year experience requirement for other ACC fellowships does not apply. Applicants need a valid US student visa (ACC does not sponsor student visas). Applicants may apply to only one ACC programme per cycle. HOW TO APPLY: via the GoApply portal with an Individual Account (https://goapply2.akoyago.com/acc/application/GRAD2027). Recommendation letters due 16 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET. Questions: the ACC office matching your citizenship (Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines and Taiwan have their own offices; all others application@accny.org). DEADLINE: 10 November 2026, 9:59 AM ET.
The Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program awards USD 200,000 each to scholars, journalists, authors and public intellectuals for one to two years of research and writing toward a book or major study in the social sciences and humanities, with recent classes framed around understanding US political polarization and strengthening social cohesion. HOW IT WORKS: this is a nomination-based program; individuals cannot apply directly. Nominations come from designated nominators at universities, colleges, think tanks, publishers and other institutions, and most nominating institutions run internal selection rounds with deadlines in early October 2026 (check your institution's research office). Carnegie Corporation's nomination deadline is 13 November 2026, with fellows announced in spring 2027. ELIGIBILITY: US-based candidates put forward by their institutions; both senior and junior scholars are considered. If you are affiliated with a university or think tank and want to be considered, contact your institution's limited-submissions or research development office well before its internal deadline. NOMINATION DEADLINE: 13 November 2026.
Jane Street's Graduate Research Fellowship supports exceptional doctoral students in electrical engineering and computer science, mathematics, physics or statistics; research does not need to relate to trading. ELIGIBILITY: PhD students with at least one year remaining in their programme, or those committed to start a PhD at a specified university in fall 2027; fellows must be active full-time PhD students at an accredited research institution in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand or Singapore during the award year. International students are eligible and encouraged. WHAT YOU GET: full tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year plus a USD 50,000 stipend (or local-currency equivalent; taxable); finalists receive USD 5,000. APPLICATION: CV, an optional one-to-two-page research statement and recommender contact details. DEADLINES: student applications 13 November 2026 AoE; recommendation letters 1 December 2026; notifications in February 2027. Questions: graduate-research-fellowship@janestreet.com.
The Athens Residency is the flagship program of ARCAthens, a not-for-profit founded in 2017, offering fully funded Fellowships for visual artists and curators to live and work in Athens. The residency is structured and research-driven, built around arranged studio and private collection visits, institutional access and community events, balanced with time for independent work. Fellows take part in one public engagement event organized by ARCAthens and must stay based in Athens for the full residency. ELIGIBILITY: international curators and visual artists residing outside Greece. SUPPORT: ARCAthens provides housing (private bedroom and bathroom, shared common spaces), travel, a Fellowship Prize and a weekly stipend; Visual Art Fellows get studio access. In the Fall 2026 round this was a USD 3,000 Fellowship Prize plus USD 200 per week. Fellows cover food, local transport and any production or shipping costs; there is no production budget. TIMELINE: applications 16 October to 14 November 2026 (closes 11:00 p.m. ET); notification late November; residency 4 February to 26 April 2027.
The Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, run by the Portland Art Museum's Center for an Untold Tomorrow with the Oregon Arts Commission, gives Oregon media artists money to create or complete new work. Eligible work is artist-driven moving image, sound, digital or time-based media: narrative, documentary and experimental film, animation, video art, artist-made television, audio and podcasts, immersive and interactive media, web-based and digital work, AR, VR and mixed reality, and emerging forms. Review criteria include sustained professional achievement and potential future contribution to the field. ELIGIBILITY: artists aged 18 or over who have lived in Oregon for at least one year as their fixed, permanent principal home, not enrolled in a creative degree programme, and who have not received a Media Arts Fellowship or any Oregon Arts Commission fellowship in the previous five years; one application per year, joint applications split a single award. DEADLINE: 15 November 2026 (no time stated; late applications are not guaranteed processing).
Molly Crockett's lab at Princeton, based in the Department of Psychology and the University Center for Human Values, is hiring a postdoc to start in summer or fall 2027. The research topic is flexible. The lab uses methods from computational social science and cognitive science informed by theory from science and technology studies and feminist epistemology, studying feedback loops between individual psychology, institutions and culture, and how the tech industry co-opts these processes to concentrate power. It is especially interested in bridging quantitative and qualitative methods for understanding human experience, and in how culture and power shape which questions are valued and which methods are legitimised. The lab is industry-independent and accepts no research funding from the tech industry; it uses a variety of ML methods and aims to develop thoughtful approaches to automation in scholarship, so it suits researchers excited about AI in science but wary of hype and industry influence. WHAT YOU GET: an USD 80,000 salary from stable institutional funds, initial one-year appointment renewable up to three years. APPLICATION: via Interfolio; questions about fit to mj.crockett@princeton.edu. Review of applications begins 20 November 2026 and continues until the position is filled.
A year-long fellowship for journalists covering artificial intelligence. Fellows complete a three-month full-time remote programme on AI and journalism fundamentals, attend a weeklong summit, then work for nine months as reporters embedded in a partner newsroom (current partners are in Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC and Cambridge). ELIGIBILITY: journalism or AI expertise, aged 18+ by 7 June 2027, no degree required; primarily for applicants with the right to work in the US, UK or Hong Kong, as visa sponsorship is uncommon and needs partner-outlet approval.
The Re:Paris Prize, run by Van Alen Institute, funds research into how design plays a transformative role in Africa and its diaspora. Each winner receives a USD 35,000 travel fellowship for field research that requires international travel to connect with experts and opportunities. Two Africa-based winners were chosen from the 2026 Pan-African Biennale; a third, US-based winner is selected through this open call. Proposals address one of five themes, including 'Data, algorithms, and the public realm', on how digital infrastructures reshape public space, civic life and spatial perception. Winners present their learnings at Van Alen Institute in Fall 2027 and at the second Pan-African Biennale in 2028. ELIGIBILITY: US-based applicants; further rules on the call page. APPLY via the Airtable form linked from the project page. DEADLINE: Sunday 22 November 2026.
GovAI's Summer Fellowship brings early-career researchers and practitioners into AI governance for three months of full-time work on a research or applied project under the mentorship of a GovAI researcher. TRACKS: UK Research Track and UK Applied Track in London, plus a Washington DC track, each with its own application page. TOPICS include risk management, economics and geopolitics of AI, public policy and technical governance. ELIGIBILITY: open to applicants worldwide; must be able to work in person full time from 7 June to 27 August 2027; GovAI can sponsor temporary work visas. DEADLINE: 22 November 2026, 23:59 GMT for the UK tracks (11:59 pm EST for DC).
DOMA Initiatives, in partnership with the British Council, nominates one Malaysia-based fellow for the British Council Venice Fellowship Programme at the 2027 Venice Biennale (62nd International Art Exhibition). The fellow spends one month in Venice: half the time as an exhibition ambassador at the British Pavilion (stewarding, engaging visitors, supporting daily gallery operations) and half on independent research or a creative or architectural project inspired by Venice, the Pavilion and the Biennale themes. Fellows complete 15 hours of online training in March-April 2027 and, on return, run a sharing session, workshop or exhibition for DOMA Initiatives. ELIGIBILITY: active early-career professionals in architecture or related creative fields, based in Malaysia, with a portfolio integrating research or creative practice with the themes of La Biennale di Venezia; strong spoken and written English; must also meet the British Council criteria in the Venice Fellowship Programme Guidance Notes 2027. HOW TO APPLY: complete the application form (Google Doc linked from the call page) and email it with a CV and portfolio/research proposal to the selection committee. Shortlisting and interviews 30 November to 3 December 2026; nomination to the British Council 4 December 2026; final selection announced January 2027. Contact: Veronica Ng, DOMA Initiatives Coordinator, veronican@sunway.edu.my. DEADLINE: 27 November 2026, 12:00 noon MYT.
The Kaete Hamburger Centre for Cultural Practices of Reparation (KHK CURE) at Saarland University invites applications for up to twelve fellowships for its fourth year, October 2027 to September 2028. CURE welcomes scholars from cultural studies, the humanities and the social sciences whose work examines questions of reparation and irreparability; artists holding a doctorate and experienced in academic collaboration may also apply. ANNUAL THEME: 'Things', foregrounding the material dimension of reparation: objects, artefacts and material environments through which practices such as repair, mending and reuse acquire cultural and political significance. Proposals must align with at least one of the Centre's three thematic fields (history, experience or nature) and address the annual theme. CONDITIONS: fellowships run six to twelve months from 1 October 2027; fellows on unpaid leave receive approximately EUR 6,100 to 7,200 per month before taxes depending on qualifications, or the home institution is reimbursed for replacement teaching; one round trip to Saarbruecken is reimbursed under the Saarland Travel Expense Act; a fully equipped individual workspace is provided and an apartment can be arranged for around EUR 1,250 per month; fellows must live in Saarbruecken and take part in the Centre's international, interdisciplinary research community. ELIGIBILITY: a completed PhD (submitted and defended) by the deadline; retired persons and Saarland University staff are not eligible. HOW TO APPLY: via the online form with a one-page motivation letter, CV (max 3 pages), list of publications, and a five-page project description with bibliography, in English, German or French. Notification by 30 April 2027. Deadline 30 November 2026.
The Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF) invites applications for two Leibniz Summer Fellowships in German and/or European (including Eastern European) history in the twentieth century. Fellows spend two consecutive months between April and October 2027 in Potsdam or Berlin pursuing independent research while taking part in departmental activities and presenting work in ZZF's research seminar; the institute's five research departments include Contemporary History in the Age of Media and Information Society. GRANT: EUR 3,000 per month for two months, with office space, computer facilities and specialist library resources. ELIGIBILITY: international scholars holding a doctorate and residing outside Germany at the time of application. HOW: send a letter of interest, CV, publication list and a research proposal of up to 1,500 words as a single PDF to fellowships@zzf-potsdam.de. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026.
The Sigg Fellowship for Chinese Art Research supports new research on Chinese art in dialogue with the M+ Collections; the 2026/27 edition focuses on tradition and contemporary Chinese art. WHO: individuals or research groups of any nationality and any age, with a postgraduate degree in a relevant discipline, or an undergraduate degree plus at least three years of relevant professional or academic research experience; proficiency in spoken and written Chinese or English is required, and the fellowship is subject to obtaining a Hong Kong visa. WHAT YOU GET: HKD 200,000 to cover all expenses, including travel, living, insurance and research costs, for a three-to-six-month attachment to M+. Fellows give a public lecture in Hong Kong and write an essay of at least 5,000 English words or 7,500 Chinese characters for M+ Magazine. APPLICATION: submit a research proposal (max 1,000 words) and full CV via the Google form on the call page, in English or Chinese, and have two academic or professional referees email recommendation letters directly. Results are announced in early 2027. DEADLINE: 30 November 2026, 23:59 (UTC+8).
The Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, run by the Research Grants Council, funds around 400 new full-time PhD students a year at eight Hong Kong universities, in any discipline, including AI, computing and data science programmes and practice-led art research (Hong Kong Baptist University's Academy of Visual Arts promotes the scheme for practice-led and practice-based PhDs with access to its studios). FUNDING: HKD 344,400 a year stipend and HKD 14,400 a year travel allowance for up to three years, with university top-ups (HKBU: Elite Scholar Award HKD 40,000 a year, extra travel funds, tuition waiver, housing). ELIGIBILITY: anyone seeking admission as a new full-time PhD student at a participating university, irrespective of country of origin, prior work experience or ethnic background; selection weighs academic excellence, research ability, communication and leadership. HOW TO APPLY: first make the Initial Application to the RGC (open since 1 September 2026) by 12:00 noon Hong Kong time, 1 December 2026, then apply to up to two programmes at one or two universities by their own deadlines (listed as 1 December 2026, 11:59pm Hong Kong time; some fall right after the RGC deadline, so apply early). Many departments, HKBU's AVA included, require a proposed supervisor.
To mark the 40th anniversary of ERASMUS in 2027, the European Cultural Foundation is opening its historical archives for a Creative Research Fellowship: one professional creative practitioner will research ECF's lesser-known role in shaping the ERASMUS student mobility programme (from the European Institute of Education and the Office for Cooperation in Education to the ERASMUS Bureau, which ran the scheme until 1994) and translate that history into a public-facing artwork about what European belonging feels like and what the next ERASMUS could be. WHAT YOU GET: a EUR 10,000 grant for travel, living costs and production; a research residency at the Historical Archives of the European Union in Florence during the first trimester of 2027; and presentation of the finished work in Brussels in September 2027, in partnership with the House of European History. WHO: creative practitioners residing in a Council of Europe member state with a track record of research-based work for museum contexts. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 17:00 CET. The full call is linked from ECF's open calls and social channels; a dedicated call page could not be located at the time of adding.
The Nieman Foundation brings around two dozen journalists to Harvard each year for two semesters of study, reflection and community, one of the oldest and best-known midcareer journalism fellowships in the world. Fellows design their own course of study, audit classes across Harvard's schools and take part in Nieman's own seminars and master classes; many use the year to deepen a beat such as technology, AI accountability, science or press freedom. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 87,500 stipend paid over the nine-month academic year (2026-27 figure), plus allowances toward housing, childcare and health insurance. WHO IS ELIGIBLE: working journalists, staff or freelance, in any medium, with at least five years of full-time media experience; open to applicants from any country. Freelancers may use a recent supervising editor for one of the three required recommendation letters. Special fellowships within the program include the Nieman-Berkman Klein Fellowship in Journalism Innovation. TO APPLY: applications for the class of 2028 open in the first week of October 2026 and require two essays (personal statement and study proposal), work samples and three recommendation letters. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 for international applicants; 31 January 2027 for US citizens.
Wave Farm, the Warhol Foundation-backed transmission arts center in Acra, NY, opens one application covering all its 2027 opportunities: the Transmission Art Residency, the Spatial Sound Residency, and two Radio Art Fellowship tracks (Research, and Community Engagement) connected to Wave Farm's WGXC radio station. WHAT YOU GET: a USD 1,000 stipend for each 10-day residency and USD 2,000 for each two-month fellowship, with access to Wave Farm's research library, transmitter and receiver equipment, and on-site staff support to develop a new transmission artwork. ELIGIBILITY: international; collaborations allowed; full-time students are ineligible except rare post-graduate cases; past residents and fellows may reapply; applicants may apply to as many opportunities as they wish but will be offered at most one; DJ sets are explicitly ineligible. A strong fit for signal-based, broadcast, spatial sound and radio-adjacent work. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026 at 11:59 pm EST. Finalists are interviewed by Zoom, with notifications in late February 2027 and residencies during 2027.
The Mensch Maschine VISIT Residency Program is an annual fellowship offering four fully funded fellowships to artists from around the world, run by the JUNGE AKADEMIE of the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) with VISIT, the artist-in-residence programme of the E.ON Foundation, E-WERK Luckenwalde and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art (Warsaw). The 2027 edition particularly encourages projects at the intersection of art, energy and ecology exploring the theme ENERGY GHOSTS: the unseen dimensions of energy approached through mythology, cosmology or speculative fiction, the invisible infrastructures, histories and residues that haunt contemporary life, and energy as an ecological, political or spiritual force. Proposals are welcome from visual art, performance, film, installation, sound, writing and new media. WHAT YOU GET: EUR 20,000 per fellow for artist fees and production costs of a new project (research and development, travel, material and presentation costs); three fellows receive studio space and accommodation at E-WERK Luckenwalde (a former power station about 40 minutes south of Berlin), one is accommodated by the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. The three-month residency runs roughly September to November 2027 with on-site presence of at least 75% required, a retreat at Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw in September 2027, events across the three venues, and a closing symposium in October 2027 at the Akademie der Künste where fellows show work in progress alongside the 2026 cohort. JURY: Nolan Oswald Dennis; Chus Martinez (Institute Art Gender Nature, TBA21); Sarah Johanna Theurer (Fondation Beyeler); Anh-Linh Ngo (Akademie der Künste); and Tiara Roxanne. APPLICATION: via the VISIT portal at visit-energy.com/bewerben. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 23:59 CET.
The Graton Fellowship, run by the Sundance Institute Indigenous Program, supports two Native storytellers from California tribes with an unrestricted cash grant and a year of creative and professional support from Sundance, including mentorship and access to Institute programmes. ELIGIBILITY: artists who are members of, or can show lineal descent from, a California-based tribe, federally or non-federally recognised; proof of affiliation or descent is required. APPLY via the Sundance application portal. DEADLINE: 1 December 2026, 4:30 pm MT (3:30 pm PT), as listed on the application portal.
An academic-year fellowship for mid-career journalists to pursue a study project at the University of Michigan, with seminars and programming at Wallace House. DEADLINES: international applicants 1 December 2026, 11:59 pm ET; US applicants 1 February 2027. No application fee stated.
Stanford's nine-month residential fellowship for journalists and people who work in service of journalism (editors, producers, photographers, audience and community builders, publishers, operations and strategy staff). Fellows bring a question about journalism they cannot let go of rather than a fixed project, and pursue it with a small international cohort, individual coaching, customised workshops and the run of Stanford; many fellows work on AI, platforms, information ecosystems and audience trust. ELIGIBILITY: at least five years of professional experience (student work and internships don't count); no degree or newsroom background required; freelancers must do most of their work in journalism. Not eligible: PR or communications staff, government employees, full-time academics, staff of non-editorially-independent media, degree seekers, book or reporting projects. APPLICATION: via SurveyMonkey Apply (jsk.smapply.org); deadline 2 December 2026 at 1pm Pacific, no extensions. Info webinars on 21 October and 5, 6 and 12 November 2026.
CISAC's 2027-2028 fellowship application is open across seven tracks: Artificial Intelligence and Laws of Armed Conflict; AI in Strategic Stability and Military Competition; Geopolitics of Artificial Intelligence; India-U.S. Security Studies; Natural Sciences or Engineering International Security (for natural scientists and engineers researching scientific and technical aspects of security topics); Nuclear Security; and International Security. Applicants are considered for all fellowships they are eligible for. Fellows spend the academic year in residence at Stanford engaged in research and writing, participating in seminars and collaborating with CISAC faculty and the wider community. CAREER STAGES: predoctoral (currently enrolled PhD students), postdoctoral (completed PhD or DPhil), and junior faculty or professionals. FUNDING: stipends are provided (predoctoral comparable to Stanford Graduate Fellowships plus tuition; postdoctoral and professional stipends commensurate with experience), though exact amounts are not published; non-US citizens may apply and visas are available through the fellowship. APPLY via the SlideRoom portal (Stanford CISAC Fellowship Program) with the application form, CV, graduate transcript (required for pre- and postdoctoral applicants), research prospectus (max 1,500 words), abstract (max 200 words), writing sample (max 50 pages), and three confidential recommendation letters uploaded directly by recommenders; all materials in English. DEADLINE: 2 December 2026. Questions: cisacfellowship@stanford.edu.
Annual screenwriting fellowship from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) administered through The Black List, awarding $20,000 each to three writers to revise a feature screenplay or pilot that engages with climate change in a compelling way. Submission and selection happen on The Black List platform; applicants should review program eligibility and any associated hosting/submission fees on blcklst.com before applying. Strong fit for narrative writers using fiction to dramatise climate, ecology, energy, or environmental-justice themes (rather than documentary). 2027 CYCLE: submissions are open until 4 December 2026 and are capped at a maximum of 500, so early entry is advised. All accepted submissions receive a free script evaluation and one free month of script hosting on the platform. Fellows also receive consultation with NRDC's Rewrite the Future team, which works to transform the onscreen portrayal of climate change beyond dystopia and apocalypse toward solutions, plus six months of mentorship from an established screenwriter; past mentors include Lucia Aniello, Dustin Lance Black, Roxane Gay, Nick Kroll and Daniel Scheinert.
PARC's 28th annual fellowship competition for Palestinian scholars funds field-based research in the arts, humanities, social sciences, public health and environmental studies; purely scientific research is not eligible. WHO: Palestinian PhD students who have defended their dissertation proposal, or Palestinian PhD holders, regardless of residence or ID; researchers without a doctorate qualify with at least 10 refereed articles, and MA holders only as part of a team led by a PhD holder. Recent PARC fellows (last three years) are ineligible. FIELDWORK: in Palestine, Jordan, Egypt or Lebanon, lasting two months to one year (Golan Heights proposals accepted with a comparative Palestine framework). WHAT YOU GET: up to USD 6,000, with research to be completed by 31 December 2028. APPLICATION: in English via the Apply Now link (application form, 350-word abstract, 2,000-word proposal, service component, budget, CV up to 10 pages, ID and passport details; PhD students also transcripts and two recommendation letters). Information webinar 27 October 2026; awards announced 15 April 2027. DEADLINE: 5 December 2026.
The Simon-Skjodt Center funds policy-relevant research on preventing genocide and mass atrocities, from any discipline. Fellows work non-residentially for a year and present at a workshop in Washington, DC. ELIGIBILITY: enrolled PhD students or researchers within 5 years of completing a PhD, any nationality, any discipline. APPLY via the Smartsheet form linked from the fellowship page. DEADLINE: 13 December 2026, 11:59 pm ET.
Mozilla Foundation's 2027-28 Fellowship backs 10 people working on technology that is "too early, too unexpected, or too ambitious for anyone else to fund", reimagining emerging technology while its future is still being decided. Each Fellow receives up to USD 125,000 over 12 months (USD 100,000 stipend plus USD 25,000 project budget) to lead an independent project. Mozilla's fellowship work spans responsible AI, digital rights, online privacy and surveillance, internet freedom, open source and data governance; listed 2027 focus areas include business models for a post-agentic web (see the call page for the full list). This replaces the nomination-only process of the 2026 cycle with an open letter-of-intent route. APPLICATION: submit a Letter of Intent by 17 December 2026, 11:59 PM Pacific; shortlisted applicants are invited to later stages, which may include interviews. The fellowship begins 1 June 2027.
The Internet Society Fellowship supports people advancing Internet connectivity, policy or security in their communities. Fellows design and implement a practical project with deliverables such as policy briefs, research reports, training programs, community engagement initiatives, workshops or technical resources, supported by a stipend of up to USD 5,000, a dedicated mentor, weekly virtual training sessions and funded travel to a global or regional Internet event. IMPORTANT PREREQUISITE: applicants must first complete the Pre-Fellowship Training modules; enrollment for the training runs 23 September to 22 November 2026, and eligible participants receive the Fellowship application link by email within 24 hours of completing it. ELIGIBILITY: open worldwide; requires a high level of English reading, speaking and writing, continuous Internet access throughout the program, a valid passport (six months beyond anticipated travel), at least four hours per week over 10 months, and not currently participating in a 2026 Internet Society fellowship. TIMELINE: applications reviewed on a rolling basis and close 18 December 2026; notifications 19 February 2027; program kick-off 22 February 2027; project execution 1 June to 30 November 2027; graduation early December 2027.
The A4 Residency Art Center in Chengdu, the residency platform of the A4 Art Museum in Luxelakes Eco-City, opens its full-year 2028 recruitment. The interdisciplinary, open and collaborative platform fosters creative exchange among artists, scientists, writers and other professionals, with residents initiating participatory local activities that connect them with the city and community; A4 also organises group activities, sharing sessions, media promotion and exhibition opportunities. CYCLES: Spring 2028 (April to June) and Autumn 2028 (July to October), each approximately eight weeks. WHAT YOU GET (International Residency Fellowship, fully funded): private studio and accommodation, round-trip economy airfare or second-class train within a set budget, a production grant of RMB 10,000 per person or team for materials and production (excluding living expenses), community engagement and cultural experiences, media promotion and networking. ELIGIBILITY: multidisciplinary creators worldwide, including visual and performing artists, musicians, filmmakers, architects, curators, designers and creatives with interdisciplinary backgrounds bridging art, business and culture. APPLICATION: free; submit a photo, portfolio, CV and project proposal in English and Chinese to a4residency@a4am.cn, with the subject line specifying the programme tier and preferred cycle. DEADLINE: 31 December 2026 for the 2028 full-year recruitment. A parallel self-funded light track exists; this listing covers the funded fellowship only.
Four resident biography fellowships plus the Levy/Sloan Fellowship, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, for a biography of a figure in science or technology; separate Sherwin fellowship for nuclear-age history. Open to writers of all nationalities, with explicit preference for first-time biographers who have not yet held a biography fellowship, though mid-career and senior writers are welcome; independent writers eligible. Fellows join monthly seminars and the center's public events. Apply with CV, career narrative, project description, writing sample and two references (agents, editors and publishers are discouraged as referees). No application fee.
The Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design is a year-long residential fellowship for accomplished mid-career practitioners shaping the built and natural environment: urban designers, public artists, architects, landscape architects, urban planners, developers, journalists, civic leaders, policymakers and community development leaders (past fellows have included a theater director, public artists and a documentary filmmaker). Fellows audit courses at the GSD and across Harvard (minimum one GSD course per semester), engage with the school community, and join a lifelong global alumni network. SUPPORT: a stipend of USD 57,500 for the academic year (taxable income), housing through 30 June for fellows and families of modest size coming from outside the Boston/Cambridge area, and a travel grant covering roughly one economy round trip home per semester. ELIGIBILITY: minimum 8 years of experience in the field (a typical class averages about 42 years of age); international candidates are encouraged to apply and must be eligible for a J-1 visa at selection; fellows must remain in residence in the Cambridge area while classes are in session. HOW TO APPLY: via SlideRoom with a resume, three recommendation letters (due 7 days after the deadline) and optional supplemental materials. No application fee. DEADLINE: 5 January 2027 at 11:59 PM ET for the 2027-28 class.
The Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri funds people and teams to build and launch a tool, workflow or product that helps newsrooms, in three tracks: Individual (USD 75,000), Institutional (USD 75,000, paid to a host organisation or the fellow) and Emerging Technology (USD 100,000, where AI or another new technology must be essential to the solution). The output must be a free, open-source resource usable by US journalists; tools limited to one city or state are unlikely to be funded. The fellowship is remote and runs for eight months from 28 June 2027 with an in-person kickoff at RJI and a couple of paid visits. ELIGIBILITY: anyone, anywhere; no age, background or journalism credential required. Applications open 2 November 2026 on Submittable; a shortlist is invited in early to mid February 2027 to submit a fuller application, with finalist interviews 5 to 23 April 2027. DEADLINE: 8 January 2027 (first round; no time zone stated, RJI is on US Central time).
Two-year residency for exceptional, highly motivated emerging artists and critical writers committed to developing a sustainable practice. Over the 23-month term, Core Fellows receive USD 100,000 (USD 50,000 a year) plus a health and wellness stipend, a private studio and regular studio visits from regional, national and international artists and curators. They get free and discounted classes at the Glassell School of Art and can request access to its studios (painting, printmaking, digital and film photography, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics), and borrowing privileges at the MFAH Hirsch Library and Rice University's Fondren Library. PROGRAMME: a group exhibition in the spring of year one and a solo exhibition or project in the spring of year two (critics-in-residence propose their own second-year outcome); a public artist lecture and open studio in year one; a second open studio and gallery talk in year two. SELECTION: a jury of arts professionals selects fellows on the quality of submitted work and the potential impact of the Houston residency on their practice; when qualifications are comparable, priority goes to a Houston-based artist or critic. VISAS: limited administrative support for international applicants seeking J-1 visas via International Arts & Artists; no support for other visa types. FEE: USD 12 application fee. Apply via SlideRoom by 8 January 2027. Accommodation requests: coreprogram@mfah.org.
An academic-year fellowship at MIT for journalists covering science, health, technology or the environment, with seminars, MIT and Harvard courses and a self-directed study project. ELIGIBILITY: full-time staff or freelance journalists with at least 3 consecutive years of science, health, technology or environment coverage; international applicants welcome. Applications open 15 November 2026; deadline 9 January 2027.
HIIG's Impact AI Fellowship invites people interested in measuring the effects of AI on society and the environment to assess an existing, operational AI application and take lead authorship of a published case report. Applicants do not need their own case; HIIG helps match fellows with cases, and proposed cases must be deployed applications rather than prototypes or research ideas. WHO: holders of a master's degree; field experience is an advantage but an academic track record is not required. FORMAT: ten weeks from 16 August to 22 October 2027, with mandatory in-person weeks in Berlin (16-20 August and 4-8 October 2027), an independent research phase that can be done remotely, regular online check-ins, and a mandatory online preparatory session on 11 May 2027. WHAT YOU GET: a fixed EUR 5,000 stipend and case-by-case partial support for in-person costs; health insurance, visa and meals are the fellow's responsibility. APPLICATION: online form with one combined file (CV up to 4 pages, motivation letter up to 2 pages, optional project description up to 2 pages). Info sessions on 10 November 2026 (10:00) and 17 November 2026 (15:00). DEADLINE: 15 January 2027.
The Indian Arts Research Center at the School for Advanced Research offers three residential fellowships for Native American artists: the Eric and Barbara Dobkin Fellowship for Native women artists working in any media (including digital art and film/video), the Ronald and Susan Dubin Fellowship for traditional arts, and the Rollin and Mary Ella King Fellowship for Native visual artists from Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico or Utah. Each includes a USD 15,000 stipend, housing and studio space on the SAR campus, a supplies allowance and travel. ELIGIBILITY: Native American artists, emerging or established, per each fellowship's criteria. Applications open 1 November and are accepted through 15 January each year. DEADLINE: 15 January 2027.
The Institute for Law & AI's US Summer Fellowship is a paid research fellowship at the leading edge of US AI law and policy for law students, professionals, and academics, including the Summer Institute on Law and AI in Washington DC and mentorship from LawAI research staff. FUNDING: USD 2,000 per week, a USD 10,000 relocation/housing stipend for DC-based fellows, covered flights, accommodation and meals for the Convening Week, and potentially higher subsidies for exceptional candidates. ELIGIBILITY: a strong grasp of US legal principles applicable to AI regulation via formal US legal study (incoming 1L and up) or comparable professional experience; full-time commitment 14 June to 20 August 2027; valid US work authorization required (visa sponsorship possible but not guaranteed). The application takes about 20 minutes. DEADLINE: 29 January 2027, 11:59PM ET.
Screen Australia's Global Fellowships support Australian screen practitioners (producers, directors, writers and development executives) pursuing international professional development and career acceleration through placements with leading global screen organizations. SUPPORT: up to 10 fellows annually, each receiving a non-recoupable grant of AUD 80,000 for a single continuous placement of up to 6 months, or AUD 100,000 for multiple placements over up to 12 months, plus up to AUD 5,000 for carers' and/or accessibility costs. ELIGIBILITY: Australian citizens or permanent residents (sole traders) or incorporated Australian companies with an ABN; applicants must secure their own fellowship opportunity with host organizations and mentors (Screen Australia does not broker placements) and be eligible for required visas. ASSESSMENT: track record and professional achievement, quality of the fellowship opportunity, career impact, and anticipated benefit to Australia's screen sector, weighted equally. HOW TO APPLY: one application per deadline via Screen Australia's funding portal. Notification 2 April 2027. DEADLINE: 11 February 2027 at 5pm AEST.
Pantheon, which builds general-purpose robot models, runs a remote research fellowship in which each fellow leads a project on an open problem the team meets while training and evaluating its models; strong results are folded into the next generation of those models. WHO: graduate students and exceptional undergraduates with backgrounds in pretraining large models, reinforcement learning or adjacent fields who want to work on general-purpose robotics. CURRENT RESEARCH QUESTIONS: value learning for general-purpose tasks; model drift and test-time adaptation in world models; multimodal representation (vision, touch, force, proprioception at different rates or missing); scaling laws for forward dynamics models versus video pretraining; learning from deliberately induced failure. OFFER: USD 6,000/month stipend, enterprise-level compute, weekly 1:1 mentorship (team includes ETH Zurich alumni, ICML authors, NeurIPS award winners, and researchers from xAI and Jane Street), work toward a paper or other public research output; outstanding fellows may be offered full-time roles. Past fellows came from ETH Zurich, IIT Bombay, Yale, Stanford and Cambridge. APPLY: email your CV, a short note on the research questions that excite you, and any relevant work to fellowship@pantheon.inc. No deadline is published (rolling).
AIXI Labs is a small London-based non-profit doing AI safety research grounded in algorithmic information theory. Its stated position is that most AI research today is either mathematically clean but narrow, or practical but too opaque for rigorous safety analysis; the lab targets a third category, methods general enough to describe powerful agents and provable enough to support real safety claims, using AIXI (the theoretical model of unbounded artificial superintelligence) and then porting the strongest of those ideas to modern LLM-based agents. The fellowship is a quarterly, rolling programme for researchers who want to work on this agenda under close mentorship from the core team: Cole Wyeth (Founder and Executive Director), Marcus Hutter (Research Director) and Aram Ebtekar (Founding Research Scientist). Fellows pursue a focused research project over roughly a quarter and receive a monthly stipend plus a compute budget for machine-learning work. The fellowship is fully remote, so fellows may work from anywhere in the world or from the London base. RESPONSIBILITIES: pursue a self-directed research project aligned with the lab's algorithmic-information-theoretic approach to AI safety, spanning anything from foundational theory to empirical tests with LLM-based agents; shape the project direction around your own strengths and interests, as the lab supports a range of work within this framework; and contribute papers, blog posts or other written output communicating results to the broader AI safety and ML research communities. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: a research background at the level of a current PhD student (for primarily empirical projects, a master's-level command of the relevant mathematics paired with substantial industry or applied research experience can also qualify); solid grounding in probability, statistics, information theory and reinforcement learning, sufficient to engage seriously with AIXI-style theoretical models (prior expertise in algorithmic information theory or AIXI is NOT required); strong verbal and written communication skills; genuine motivation to reduce existential risk from advanced AI and enthusiasm for the lab's kind of work. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: publications at top ML, AI or theory venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ALT or COLT, though the lab values the strength of your best work over volume; background in algorithmic information theory, computability theory, learning theory or related theoretical computer science; experience fine-tuning, evaluating or red-teaming LLM-based and/or RL agents; prior engagement with the UAI/AIXI community or related fields, including members of the lab's online reading groups. APPLICATIONS are reviewed on a rolling basis and previous applicants remain eligible for later rounds.
The Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) Research Fellowship supports curious, passionate mid-career researchers and practitioners to explore frontier questions on digital public infrastructure (DPI) and data governance. Fellows bring their own knowledge and research agenda while contributing to DIAL's core thematic priorities: creating more value for more people from data; understanding how digital systems and services impact people, including and especially the most marginalised; and accelerating the adoption of data-sharing and governance practices that fuel innovation and empower people. SUPPORT: a USD 5,000 stipend for research completed over 6-8 months, plus mentorship from DIAL staff and industry experts, access to DIAL's network and resources, collaboration with partner organisations, and support amplifying the work. Each fellow produces two preliminary pieces and one final, more extensive output (research papers or reports, policy briefs, expert-comment series, etc.). ELIGIBILITY: professionals from academia, the private sector, and civil society, typically with 8-15 years of experience in digital development, policy, or research; demonstrated work at the intersection of technology and society (including DPI and data governance); a track record of high-quality writing, research, or policy briefs; experience working in or with global majority countries; and strong analytical and communication skills. TO APPLY (rolling basis): submit a CV or resume, a writing sample or portfolio, and a research proposal. Questions: fellows@dial.global. Apply via https://dial.global/apply-to-our-fellows-program/.
A one-year fellowship placing Fellows directly inside government, non-profit and social-enterprise host institutions across the United States to design and implement high-impact programs, translating data-driven insights into actionable policy recommendations, new programs and operational changes for the partners they serve. STIPEND: USD 47,000 living stipend for the year (scaled up for higher-cost cities) plus a reimbursable health-insurance stipend up to USD 5,000. ELIGIBILITY: primarily intended for candidates graduating from their academic programs in 2026 and/or already working full-time; this is a full-time 12-month commitment. PROCESS: applications and interviews are considered on a ROLLING basis starting in March, so applicants are encouraged to apply early; most engagements begin between June and November, with partner match meetings 6 to 8 weeks before the anticipated start. APPLY: https://www.adf.uchicago.edu/apply
The CHAI Research Fellowship trains highly qualified postdoctoral researchers to advance beneficial AI, working with CHAI faculty Stuart Russell, Pieter Abbeel and Anca Dragan and collaborating with affiliate faculty at Berkeley AI Research and beyond. Fellows have broad freedom to pursue novel research toward provably beneficial AI systems in areas such as reasoning, decision making, learning, multi-agent systems and philosophical foundations, using probability theory, game theory and control theory. Current topics of interest include theoretical foundations of intelligent agent architecture, expressive formal languages for probability models (including probabilistic programming), decision making over long time scales, cumulative lifelong learning, human-in-the-loop planning and reinforcement learning, human-robot interaction, the structure of human preferences, acting on behalf of multiple humans, robust cooperation in heterogeneous multi-agent systems, and mechanism design for human-machine systems. Fellows may also lead collaborations, advise junior researchers, and teach. QUALIFICATIONS: a PhD (or about to be obtained) in a relevant technical discipline (computer science, statistics, mathematics, or theoretical economics) and a record of high-quality published research; prior work on the AI control problem is not required. International applicants are eligible (visa sponsorship provided). TO APPLY: submit via the CHAI application form a resume, a one-page statement of interest describing the research you would like to undertake, and the names and emails of two academic referees. Start date is flexible and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis (no fixed deadline). General enquiries: chai-info@berkeley.edu.
The microagi Research Fellowship (Cohort 01) provides researchers with frontier-lab resources and the freedom to work on hard problems in robotics, embodied AI, and the systems around them. Fellows work in residence for six months at microagi's offices in Munich or Zurich. AMOUNT: up to $2,000,000 in compute; $10,000/month stipend. RESEARCH AREAS: (1) Long Horizon Dexterous Manipulation -- end-to-end models for complex multi-stage tasks with dexterous hands, natural language instruction following, memory across long task sequences, fine-grained physical control in unstructured environments; (2) Cross Embodiment Learning; (3) On Device Physical Intelligence; (4) Safe and Reliable Deployment. microagi's model is to deploy embodied intelligence into physical-world operations and turn what it learns there into compounding research. REFERRAL: $10,000 bonus for referring a candidate who is accepted into the cohort. No application deadline publicly stated as of June 2026 -- one cohort only, apply as soon as possible via https://www.microagi.ai/fellowship.
Luminos.AI, an embedded AI-governance and legal-risk infrastructure company (built by former Fortune 500 AI governance leads and company-builders), runs a part-time fellowship for a technically inclined law student or recent graduate who wants to work at the frontier of AI agent oversight and risk evaluation. Fellows work directly with senior lawyers and engineers on the practical problem of how to test, evaluate and govern generative and agentic AI systems that change every quarter. WHAT YOU DO: research and help design rigorous testing and evaluation approaches for generative and agentic AI, translating fast-moving legal and regulatory requirements into concrete, testable standards; track the global AI regulatory landscape in real time and turn it into practical guardrails; draft frameworks, workflows and risk assessments that hold up under real deployment conditions; and partner closely with the technical team, where comfort around code, models or data is an asset. Fellows with technical skills who want to spend part of their time working directly with engineering are encouraged to do so. WHO YOU ARE: currently pursuing a JD (or a recent graduate) from a top law program; an excellent researcher and writer comfortable applying existing law to genuinely new situations; genuinely enthusiastic about AI and willing to learn the technical details. Bonus: coding ability, ML/GenAI exposure, or a background in privacy, security or data governance law. TERMS: USD 35 per hour, remote, part-time, flexible 3 to 6 month term, with direct mentorship from senior legal and technical leadership. TO APPLY: send a cover letter, resume, transcript and writing sample to careers@luminos.ai with the subject line 'Application for Luminos.AI Fall 2026 Fellowship'. Rolling review with remote interviews.
The ILIAD Intensive is a four-week, full-time, in-person program for mathematically strong researchers interested in foundational AI alignment, running in London (at LISA) and in Berkeley. It runs five days a week, 10am to 6pm, in cohorts of 15 to 30 participants. CURRICULUM, across five clusters: Alignment (decomposing the alignment problem, pretraining, post-training and deployment, reward learning); Learning (deep learning theory, singular learning theory, training dynamics); Abstractions, Representations and Interpretability (mechanistic interpretability, natural latents); Agency (reinforcement learning, decision theory, agent foundations); and Safety Guarantees (debate, steganography, the limits of interpretability). MONEY: no tuition is charged. Each participant receives a USD 5,000 travel and housing allowance, office space at the venue, and lunch and dinner five days a week. Participants book and pay for their own travel and accommodation out of the allowance. ELIGIBILITY: a strong mathematical background, typically graduate-level study or a completed degree in mathematics, physics or theoretical computer science, though mathematical maturity is weighted more heavily than specific credentials. Research experience, general competence and motivation are also assessed. Prior machine learning or alignment experience is not required. DEADLINE: no fixed closing date is published. A single application covers several upcoming programs and applicants indicate their preferred dates and locations; applications are being accepted for the October 2026 and November 2026 cohorts. HOW TO APPLY: through the application portal at iliad.ac/apply. Questions to contact@iliad.ac.
The Anthropic Fellows Program is a four-month, fully funded research fellowship with direct mentorship from Anthropic researchers. Fellows work on empirical projects aligned with Anthropic's research priorities using external infrastructure, aiming to produce public outputs such as papers. Five workstreams: AI Safety, AI Security, ML Systems and Performance, Reinforcement Learning, and Economics and Policy; safety topics include scalable oversight, adversarial robustness, mechanistic interpretability, and model organisms. FUNDING: a weekly stipend of USD 3,850 (GBP 2,310 / CAD 4,300), around USD 15,000 per month in compute funding, and other research expenses. ELIGIBILITY: fluent Python; available full-time for four months; strong technical background in computer science, mathematics, or physics; work authorization in the US, UK, or Canada (no visa sponsorship). Locations: San Francisco, London, Ontario, or remote within those countries. APPLICATION: rolling, via the Constellation portal; the process includes an initial application, reference checks, technical assessments, interviews, and a research discussion. The next cohort is expected to start in January 2027, so apply well before the end of 2026.
Mentored, individual research in applied mathematics for AI alignment, including foundational questions that get less attention elsewhere, drawing on mathematics, theoretical physics and computer science. ELIGIBILITY: designed for PhD students, postdocs and researchers with equivalent experience in mathematics, theoretical physics, computer science or related fields; selection weighs academic credentials, technical ability, intentions and fit with the cohort's research coverage. APPLICATION: rolling, with fellowships starting at the beginning of most months.
Sequoia's Open Source Fellowship pays developers to work full time on open-source software without starting a company. WHO: any developer working on an open-source project, anywhere in the world; selection favours existing projects with real-world adoption (not just GitHub stars), including web frameworks, tooling and infrastructure. Fellows should plan significant improvements or investments in the project or support its expansion, and keep full ownership of all code written before, during and after the fellowship. WHAT YOU GET: a stipend sized to cover reasonable living expenses for 6 to 12 months, with no equity or obligations; roughly 2 to 3 fellows a year. APPLICATION: a brief questionnaire on the fellowship page, reviewed on a rolling basis; Sequoia contacts applicants whose projects are a good fit. DEADLINE: rolling.
Vision Maker Media's Creative Shorts Fellowship funds emerging Native filmmakers to make a short film of 40 minutes or less (documentary, drama, experimental or animation), with guidelines inviting work that pushes the limits of art and technology. Each fellow works with a named film-professional mentor, who is paid USD 5,000 separately. ELIGIBILITY: emerging Native American filmmakers aged 21 or over, US citizens or legal residents, with a mentor identified at application; the film must be completed within 12 months. Applications are accepted year-round via Submittable; confirm current status with info@visionmakermedia.org if unsure.
Robot foundation models (pi-zero, OpenVLA, GR00T and others) are approaching widespread deployment on the back of more than USD 18 billion in funding, and almost nobody is working on their safety. The Physical AI Safety Institute, a new nonprofit founded by Bear Haon and Kaylene Stocking and seeded by a grant from BlueDot Impact, describes itself as a capacity-building organisation growing the community that develops techniques to interpret, align and control robot foundation models. Its research fellowship runs in 12-week cohorts: each fellow works within a stream led by a mentor on a concrete problem in physical AI safety, with mentors drawn from researchers with track records in robot foundation models, mechanistic interpretability, safe control or adversarial robustness for embodied systems. Each cohort ends with a research symposium where fellows present their work. STREAMS: mechanistic interpretability (sparse autoencoders and activation patching for VLA and WAM architectures); adversarial robustness (jailbreaking and prompt injection in the embodied action space); runtime monitoring (detecting when a policy operates outside its competence envelope); sim-to-real safety transfer (do safety behaviours survive deployment on physical hardware); and robot security (cyberattack vectors, data poisoning and supply chain for deployed robot models). WHO SHOULD APPLY: researchers with strong technical foundations in robotics or machine learning and a demonstrated interest in safety; prior safety experience is not required. PROCESS: this stage is an expression of interest, not a full application. The form takes about two minutes and asks you to pick your stream and preferred cohort dates; concrete details including stipend figures and application deadlines are shared through that channel, and neither is published on the site as of listing. PAISI also publishes seven free curriculum modules running from classical robot safety through VLA interpretability, adversarial robustness and runtime monitoring to deployment evaluation, plus a white paper, The Case for Physical AI Safety, at paisi.ai/the-case-for-physical-ai-safety. Contact: bear@paisi.ai.
Supports journalists producing long-form investigative reports and tech-policy researchers conducting research, analysis or evaluation that informs policy related to the Kapor Foundation's three priority areas, with an emphasis on responsible AI and tech ethics. Priority areas: CS/AI Education, Innovation, Governance. Aims to dismantle systemic inequities in the tech sector by funding researchers and investigative journalists exploring barriers and driving actionable solutions. Applications accepted on a rolling basis; first awards to be announced by 30 June 2026.